Best of the Week - July 12, 2020 - Joe Rogan Experience

What happened was Sam, I sat next to Mitzi in her booth. He got on stage and he did the whole bit before he had done the Young Comedians show that I was on, that Rodney did, Rodney's first Young Comedians show. And it was the whole thing about, you know, the kid and whenever they do those World Vision commercials with a starving kid and, you know, it's famous, the most famous, one of the most famous things that any comedian's done, which was just a truism, which is the cameraman can give them a sandwich, starving kid. Get out of the desert, go to where the food is. That's a bit that I used in a conversation with a guy. It was a weird conversation. There was a guy who wrote a book on comedy. He was teaching a comedy course at a university and he was sitting here talking to me and he said that the best comedy always punches up. Because there was a time when people really believed that nonsense. Like there was a formula to comedy and that comedy should always attack the large power structures and that the small people should be, you know, elevated by comedy. So he's sitting here telling me this. I go, that's nonsense. I go, one of the greatest bits of all time is literally about starving children. There's no further down that you could punch. One of his other great bits was about dead people getting fucked in the ass. You remember that? The bit about homosexual necrophiliacs who would pay money to be with the freshest male corpse. Those are two bits where you're punching down as low as you can. Someone's dad died and this guy's fucking him. I mean, it doesn't get any, there's no further you can punch down. He was on stage in the main room and he was doing a bit where he says, this is what happened to my marriage and he would unplug the mic. This is my dick. You know, and he did not need a mic to prove the point. But he would lay on the ground with his girth and he would be pretending he was having sex with his wife from behind. And he goes, this is what happened to my marriage. And she says, I'm trying to fuck her. And he's like, she's like, we got to fix the fence. And he goes, shut the fuck up. I'm trying to fuck you. This is it. It needs a new coat of paint. But we can't, you know, you can't do that now, really. I mean, you could if you were Sam. He could do it again. He could do it. If he was alive now, he could do it. First of all, he was uniquely. He was uniquely qualified for that kind of comedy because you he was short and he was fat and he was going bald and wore a beret and the long coat. And he was hanging out with all the rock and roll and porn people. The coat you came on stage like he was a child molester or something. Yeah. I mean, that was like that. Look at that picture. That's him and Bill Hicks. I love Bill. Wow. That's a crazy picture. Bill was the sweetest, most timid guy. Does Bill have his nails done there? He's got nail polish on. What's going on with tips? Oh, it's the shadows. But that was Sam was a sweetie then. So when you see him then, I mean, when you go on stage, that was part of why it worked because I think there's a lot of people that really could do more than they're doing and they know they could and they want to make excuses. And it's part of the reason why throughout history, they've left people behind. There's certain people that if you had a tribe and you had to make it over this mountain and Bob is fucking lazy and he's like, you got to carry me, bro. I'm like, Bob, we're both walking. Come on, man. Bob's not supposed to make it. He's not supposed to make it. We want him to make it, but we don't want our kids to die. We don't want our mom to starve. We got to keep going. Bob, you lazy fuck. Come on, bro. There's always been people like Bob and it's part of the problem with humans. So I'm a contradiction. But hold on a second. The best way to take care of them. I understand, but I'm going to give you that's what attracts people to socialist ideas is just that they're nice, that they want everybody to do better. Socialist socialist ideas are very appealing. I get that. And that's why they're very popular with young people who don't know any better. They don't have enough life experience. But this is under and Peter Schiff. This is the bridge because a guy like you who really understands economics can talk to a guy like me and we can explain it to everybody. Because otherwise we just have and I'm definitely not arguing with you, but your argument versus people who disagree with these argument, you have this. But there's a there's an opportunity to make this bridge and for us to understand each other. I'm hoping I think so here. I listen to that bridge. And I know because I want to help people evolve from being socialist and capitalist because capitalists aren't mean. Yes. They just understand the unintended consequences of these well intentioned programs when that the left is in favor of. But they don't understand that they actually backfire and make all the problems that they're trying to solve worse. It is part of the problem with your labor department. Isn't the part when you have a local fire department. Right. That fire department is there to put out any fire at any house. Right. So everybody in the community benefits from having a fire department. It's not there just for one person. It's for everybody in the community. We're talking about where the government takes money specifically from one person and gives it to somebody else for their specific benefit because they think they need it for whatever problem. Whoever reason they need the money. Agree. And this would be like Bob wanting money from you. Our lazy friend Bob we're talking about. I am all in favor of private charity. I'm all in favor of people voluntarily helping out their fellow man. And Americans will do that. I mean we didn't do that. We did that a lot more in the past when the government didn't take so much of our income and taxes. We had a lot more money. Like I mentioned Grover Cleveland when he said that quote about the government not supporting the people there was a bill to appropriate ten thousand dollars for some farmers in Texas who had been hit by a drought. And Grover Cleveland vetoed the bill because he said look there's nothing in the Constitution that allows the government to give money to people just because they need it. You heard of this problem. You knew of people that their children were going through this. And how long did it take you before you decided to commit to pen to paper on this. So I spent maybe a month or so just hearing the reports of the parents and reading the original study. There's an original study that the book is you know jumps off from which is the Lisa Littman paper at Brown University's public health researcher who looked into this and she found that there was all of a sudden this huge epidemic in America of teenage girls deciding they were trans with their friends after social media emerging and pushing for hormones and surgeries. Have you had a conversation about this with someone who's a trans activist that says well maybe what's really going on. I mean I'm just taking the argument of it. Maybe what's going on is there are a lot of trans women and there would be more or there's a lot of women who would turn trans become a man. There would be more but they never had had that door open to them before and that maybe there's more trans people than we think. Amazing. Amazing. So it's a great point and I thought about it because I've you know I tried to look I'm a journalist. I like to look at ideas in both sides. I didn't have like I did not have a dog in this race. So let me tell you three reasons I don't think that's compelling. Number one when when Lisa Littman looked at the prevalence rate she found that it's 70 times what we would expect within a friend group which means it's highly concentrated in groups of friends. But there's two other reasons so we wouldn't expect that if it were randomly distributed along the population but there are two other reasons I don't think that's right. Number one if we're just reverting to normal now that there's greater societal acceptance right we're just say we're just a voting to reverting to a normal base rate of transgender women where where all the women in their 40s and 60s coming out as trans they should be coming out. Now is their time. Now is their moment. They should see tons of women in their 40s and 60s and so on coming out as transgender. We're not seeing that. We're seeing the same population that gets involved in cutting demonic possession witchcraft anorexia believe man convinces themselves there's a problem. And and there's one anyway there's there's one last reason is that suicide rates are going up. But if these women who were living under a prior you know supposedly these all these transgender these real transgender people who were living under a more repressive regime and are now just finding themselves this you would think the suicide rate would be going down with greater acceptance. So when you're saying suicide rates are going up you mean suicide rates with teens who turn trans. Both with the rate of trans of suicide among this populate first of all among girls in general is extraordinarily high. This is just one part of the mental health crisis they're in. And second of all we know that the rate that these these kids these trans identified kids have very high rates of suicide suicidal ideation. It's really you know an area of real concern. This is the other paper I want to tell you about it. It does mention aliens so it's a it is a recalculation of the trouble for having no no no they're not classified it says unclassified it just hasn't been released. It just recalculates how likely it is there are civilizations in our solar system or how likely. So it's about the Fermi paradox. It's the Drake equation so they've done this years ago about they tried to figure out how many planets are out there how many are inhabited. This is a reworking of the calculations and again I can't read it. I became a journalist. I think intelligence reference document and introduction to the statistical Drake equation. So this is something that they they created for the Defense Department. Yeah so they could get an understanding. Yeah what the baseline of our information is about all those different topics I told you about and then this one is how likely is it that we have galactic neighbors and how close might they be. Yeah the key question how far are they. It comes to an answer. It's like 30 pages into that but you're the first person outside the program to see it. You better address. Sure this is okay. Yeah it feels like I'm gonna get visited. Yeah well how far did they think they are. I hope they get it for you. And again I'm one of the reasons I become a journalist is so I don't have to do math so. That's one of the cool things now that's happening is because of the New York Times article and really because you know you had Bob on and matter of favor people are talking about this and the zeitgeist. I've had more people serious people come forward to me in the last year of my life than ever before and it includes soccer moms and just people that just I want. Post the documentary. Yes ever since the Lazar documentary you know and people found out that I kept my word to favor and didn't tell his story New York Times told that I kept all that you know people started to trust me with hey we can keep his mouth shut if he needs to. People have come forward to me and drove since the Lazar movie and of course it's like soccer moms and people that just say I don't want to be known I just want somebody to hear this because my husband would think I'm crazy let me just tell you what happened to me and I'm out of your life. I mean Joe it's everything you can imagine from seeing craft that are right there right in front of them to you know abduction stories which I don't get into because it's too crazy for me but the reporting sightings encounters all UFO stuff that's why they call me they don't call me for other stuff right but also very serious people people that have worked or do work within our military and say I had an encounter I there was an incursion I know George has dealt with this for 30 years it's just it's just new for me that the the amount of people coming forward to me and telling me their stories and giving me documents and stuff like that I gotta be careful because a lot of it's got to be bullshit right but a good handful of it is power a lot of it is you know it's like bait to really discredit UC.